Ukraine List

I have used a couple of photos from this photographer previously, so I thought I would post a few more photos that I liked from his sight, Blot of Light. You can access the photo blog directly from the link or use this site’s blogroll.

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In the last week or so, I have looked into several blogs that cover Ukraine, and I thought I would point out a few of interest. I know there are many types of blogs: trip diaries, political and news-oriented blogs, random interest, and blogs with a regional focus (among others), and even sites such as […]

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I have been busy reviewing sites today, so I will highlight four sites that I found useful and interesting.
The first is Buy Ukraine. I had seen this advertised on a few sites and just now checked it out. Basically, it’s an income-generating project of the US-Ukraine Foundation that uses the proceeds from sales to […]

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A few posts ago I reviewed several on-line translation sites that could translate text from English into Russian/Ukrainian or vice versa. This got me thinking about bad translations I have run across that have obviously been automated and posted with no sort of quality control. Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t condemn this practice, […]

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Travel 2 Crimea is not the best designed site in the world, but I find it refreshingly good. What I like about Travel 2 Crimea is its niche focus and what appears to be the dedication of the people who run it (Ihor Brudny and Sergey Sorokin). The site offers bookings to 25 area hotels […]

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The Religious Information Service of Ukraine or RISU is a rather interesting site. The site is well organized and in English, Russian, Ukrainian, German and Italian. It also has probably the best congregation of links to religious groups, churches, etc. than any other site.
Even if you are not religious, the diversity of faiths in Ukraine, […]

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